The Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
The Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
Dream of America
Saturday, June 14 at 8pm in the Center for the Arts Concert Hall
The FSO teams up with TFA for the musical culmination of the year-long Harmony project – Celebrating Our Heritage through the Arts. The program includes James Beckel’s Liberty for All, combining stirring orchestral music with the inspirational words of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Kennedy, followed by Leonard Bernstein’s exploration of racism and the immigrant experience in New York in the ‘50’s, with Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. The evening concludes with Peter Boyer’s Ellis Island: The Dream of America, celebrating the immigrant experience and the American dream through powerful symphonic music, historic images and spoken word performances from the Ellis Island Oral History Project. A multi-disciplinary celebration of America!
$45 / $35 / $25 / $15
Family focused performance.
